On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:58:41 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
>    ...
>   Filenames that contain *,* are changed to *^J*
>   Filenames that contain *#* are changed to *^N*
>   Filenames that contain *&* are changed to *^0*
>   Filenames that contain *~* are changed to *^F*
>
>But only Office files, so you can keep those characters in other files (but
>they won't be indexed). Probably. Maybe.
>
>Your basic dog's breakfast.
>
Wow!

MacOS prohibits <NUL>, '/', and any sequence of octets which do
not form a UTF-8 character.  All else is OK.

Classic allowed <NUL> and people used it to get files early in
directory listings.

-- 
gil

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